WERE your ancestors transported from East Lancashire to Majorca - and would you like them back?

For Burnley exile DF Nadin writes from the resort of Santa Ponsa on the holiday isle's south coast that, mysteriously, an old photograph of a Blackburn family has turned up in a old frame into which he was putting a new picture.

"I don't know how it got there but I would estimate that it was taken around 1900 to 1910," he says.

"On the back is written 'Mr and Mrs Cottam's family, 60 Shaw Street, Blackburn.' There are four children with their parents - a girl about 12 or 13, of boy of 10 or 11 and twin boys , aged about four."

The photograph, Mr Nadin adds, is in a worn gold inlay and was taken by Wilson Jennings, whose studios were at 21-23 Larkhill and Lord Street, Blackburn.

"I'm sure that if there are any relatives still around, they would love to have it," he says.

Ring a bell? Drop Mr Nadin a line at: Apart 118, 6th Floor, Aparts Monte Carlo, Ramon De Moncada, Santa Ponsa, Majorca.

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